BillWill.. My 'practical wiring' hero.. Who needs all that fancy stuff, when you have left over Malabu lighting laying around, right ?
Hey, my Denon is a little bigger, but from what I have read and heard about them, and my own experiances so far, you have no need to worry.. I've pushed mine hard many times with no signs of stress.. They are built to take it..
Listening to music, with all 7 spkrs cranked to plus reference figures, the fan will come on.. No breaking up, no clipping, no thermal shut down.. Just big, clean beautiful (thank you Axiom) sound !
I realize I don't use a lot of scientific terminology in my reasoning, but hey, I guess I just speak for the common man ? Although my wife would say, "Mikey !? Common sense ??" hahahah...


LFE ! The rest is just details..